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N EU AND A UT UTISTIC S EM EMIOSIS : EURODIVER ERSITY AN A F F OC ON R EP OCUS ON EPET ETITION La Laura Sterponi Un University of of Califor ornia, Berkeley A IM OF P RES IM OF RESEN ENTATION To To affirm au autisitc ne neur


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NEU

EURODIVER ERSITY AN AND AUT UTISTIC SEM EMIOSIS:

A F FOC

OCUS ON ON REP EPET ETITION

La Laura Sterponi Un University of

  • f Califor
  • rnia, Berkeley
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  • To

To affirm au autisitc ne neur urodiversity, by unp unpacking ng one ne of the he mo most salient features of autism. m.

AIM

IM OF OF PRES RESEN ENTATION

DS DSM-5

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  • In

In mainst stream autism sm rese search:

  • automatic responses
  • hindrance to, or disruptive of social interaction
  • no or minimal communicative function
  • Th

The neurodiversity perspective:

  • semiotic phenomena
  • meaningful sensory explorations
  • forms of self expression

REP

EPET ETITIVE PAT ATTERNS OF OF BEH EHAVIOR

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  • To

To affirm au autisitc ne neur urodiversity, by unp unpacking ng one ne of the he mo most salient features of autism. m.

  • To

To deconstruct further repetitive repetitive verbal behavior in in autis ism (Local & Wootton, 1995; Wootton, 1999; Sterponi &

Shankey, 2014).

  • To

To articulate further the notion of autistic se semiosi sis (Nolan &

McBride, 2015).

AIM

IM OF OF PRES RESEN ENTATION

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Videorecord rdings of

  • f spon

pontaneou

  • us interaction
  • ns of
  • f you
  • ung

(3 (3-6 6 years old) children with autism.

  • Th

The vi videoreco corded in interactio ions were transcrib ibed and an anal alyzed ed ac according to Discourse e Anal alysis conven entions.

  • Fo

Four video segments are examined.

COR

ORPUS & M

MET

ETHOD

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EXT

XTRACT 1

1 AND

ND 2

2 (Florina, 6-year-old)

  • Delayed echolalia
  • Even the most functionally opaque and seemingly autonomic

form of echolalia is highly synchronized with surrounding talk

  • Echoes are marked metacommunicatively

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XTRACT 3

3 (Matt, 4;6-year-old)

  • Formulaic language strip
  • Rather than being monological strings uttered all at once by the

autistic child, they are developed conjointly.

THE

HE EXT XTRACTS

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XTRACT 4

4 (Benjamin, 6-year-old)

  • Repetitive speech
  • Repetition affords linguistic structures of engagement (DuBois, 2014)
  • Repetition reveals and enacts the experiential potential of language

as such (Ochs, 2012)

THE

HE EXT XTRACTS

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XTRACT 1

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XTRACT 2

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XTRACT 3

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XTRACT 4

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  • A

A close analysis of the composition of autistic utterances an and thei eir position in seq equen ential al contex ext has as brought to light th the complexity ty and inte teracti tional significance of auti tisti tic re repetitive speech.

  • Re

Repetitive verbal behavior as a form of autistic se semiosi sis co communica cates and me metacommu mmunicates, , thereby providing sc scope for in intersubje jectiv ivit ity an and inter erconnec ected ednes ess.

CON

ONCLUSION ONS